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Willem Maris

Willem Maris (1844 - 1910) was active/lived in Netherlands, Holland.  Willem Maris is known for Hague School painting, bucolic landscape with grazing cattle.

Willem Maris was a Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School*. He was the third in a family of five children. His two brothers Jacob and Matthijs Maris preceded him as painters. In literature he is often characterized as a self-taught man, and Maris described his early study years as follows: "From the time I was young I worked outdoors. Even before I was twelve I would sit in the meadow and watch the cows before and after school. As my brothers were older than me, naturally I got part of my training from them, and in the winters I went to the Academy of Art, where I often drew from plaster models and also often practiced drawing in perspective. In the summer I always studied outdoors, and in the winter in the stable."

Maris also received advice from the cattle painter Pieter Stortenbeker, who gave him work to copy.

In 1862, Maris made his debut with Cows on the Heath, which may have been painted in Oosterbeek, which he visited for the first time that year. It w   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4051 characters.]  Artist bio

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